Author: msauter
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The single reason for why basic research is important
People, like me, who are doing basic research, get often asked about how our basic science research can be applied. Most of the time, we don’t know. Nobody knows. Maybe someday we will, maybe we won’t. This is not important. Why not? Imagine… Continue reading
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Is the dress black-blue or white-gold? Color constancy in the wild
Social media reactions exploded over the picture of a dress a couple of hours ago. The question seems simple enough but turned out tricky: Is this dress white and gold or blue and black? The colors seem incredibly different and… Continue reading
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Purging of memories from conscious awareness tracked in the human brain
When being asked about the importance of memory most people would say that remembering something is good and forgetting something is bad. While this seems reasonable to believe about factual knowledge (f.e. information about places or names of persons), there… Continue reading
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We watch you while you sleep – neuroimaging of dreams
Revised essay by Marian Sauter for the application to the Axol Science Scholarship 2015/16 In the last decade, technology has made it possible to combine fMRI and EEG in one experiment while minimizing the artifacts that the two methods produce… Continue reading
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Are we in power? The functional neuroanatomy of intentional action
In his talk at the LMU Munich in April 2013, Marcel Brass gives an account of the functional neuroanatomy of intentional control of action. Since he found previous neuroanatomical evidence to be contradictory, he developed a new model decomposing intentional… Continue reading
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Excessive Video Game Playing Indicates Poor Satisfaction With Life
Last year, I did an informal experimental study about Starcraft 2, a highly complex real time strategy game. Your success in Starcraft heavily relies on multitasking (in it’s every-day use). Multitasking in this sense means that you need to keep… Continue reading